Omar Khadr

Omar Khadr (born 19 September 1986) is a Canadian-Pakistani member of Al-Qaeda who was wounded in a gun battle with United States forces at the age of 15

Biography
Khadr was born in Toronto, Canada to a family of mixed Palestinian and Egyptian descent. His family moved to Peshawar, Pakistan soon after, because his mother did not like Western social influences. His father Ahmed Khadr was convicted of working for Al-Qaeda mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the family moved several times. By 2002 they had retreated to the mountains of Pakistan, and Khadr joined Al-Qaeda.

He worked as a translator for Abu Laith al-Libi, who needed someone who spoke Pashto for his stay in Khost, Afghanistan. In 2002, Khadr and four other Al-Qaeda troops were besieged in a house in Khost by 50 US and Afghan troops, and a firefight began. Khadr and one other militant survived a bombing there that killed three men, but the Americans moved in to finish them off. The militant was shot in the back of the head and killed; Khadr was shot twice in the back while crouching.

Khadr was treated for his wounds on the site, but he begged for medics to kill him, surprising them with his English. One of the officers was about to tell one of his men to kill Khadr, but a Delta Force soldier told them that he had to be taken alive. He was flown to Bagram Airbase, and then to Guantanamo Bay. Controversy rose about his being a minor, and he was repatriated to Canada in 2012. In 2014 he was sent to a medium security facility north of Calgary.